1. Seems I'm unable to do this with my "live" CD-RW of "Slacko-5.29.5 RC (k2.6.37.6)...
i.e. Edit the isolinux.cfg file in the ISO used to burn the CD...
So that it treats a pupsave file on anternal HDD as though a pupsave file on a Flash Drive.
And then I can do the necessary to be able to choose if/when to save manually during a session, and...
Be given the choice at shut-down "to save or not to save".

2. If I'm unable to do the above with any Puppy, I'm much less inclined to want to use that Puppy.
It's VERY useful to be able to choose to not-save a session.
Lupu does it, but not Slacko.

When I first booted, sound was fine.
After savefile was created, a reboot showed sound as muted. changed that with retrovol full and rebooted.
Sound still muted on reboot.
Is there a fix for that?
It is just extra work to have to goto retrovol-mixer and recheck the boxes and crank the volume back from zero on each boot/reboot.

slackware packages from repos worked (just tested small apps, big apps led to exploding dependencies).

tested some older apps - most of them still worked, seems more tolerant in that respect than the ubuntu puppies.

Is there any chance that slacko will boot straight to desktop ever?

shinobars sfs_load on the fly is in! its just great - I compiled all apps from initial boot with the devx loaded on fly.

There is also a gui system for creating the savefile by shinobar (quickset editions). Any chance that something similar goes in?

Currently installing of packages is a bit confusing, at least for everybody who is not a Puppy Linux insider.
I counted the following possibilities (just the ones offered from the GUI):
a) slickpet
b) ppm
c) sfs_load on the fly
d) Bootmanager configure bootup
e) Get Flash install Flashplayer
f) Install icon on desktop, with SFS download from official repos
IMHO it would be an improvement if ppm would handle the above cases.

I am not sure about font rendering in slacko, I *think* I have seen smoother fonts in lucid.

desktop background color went from black (in B5) to grey (RC). so couldn't read some of the text below the desktop icons (drives). Changing the text color to make it readable is not obvious (right click on icon , ROX Filer, Options, Pinboard).

regarding drives, I read here, that there would be the possibility to show drive labels.

A tiny point - but I get white pixels left when windows close and these show up on the black background....see screen attached

Me too ... .

But, the problem is obliviated when changing JWM-theme from DGmod to Gradient-gray .

I spent quite some time trying to identify where the problem originates, by starting with the Grad-gray theme and pasting into it line by line from the DGmod theme - still couldn't find the reason (un-necessary knowledge : the white pixels are actually #BEBEBE).

No fret, I generally switch to Gradient-gray, anyway, because I tend to find the default themes too murky for my eyes .........

Nice. Has anyone tested? I have been busy watching the ads - yuk. What happens when we get HTML or Chromebook Google sponsored ads?
I always use your 'product'. Appreciate it.

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Currently installing of packages is a bit confusing

Click install
Click uninstall
That works

End users do not know or care about SFS, PPM, pet, slickpet or tgz source.
The techheads do. A pop up info option will keep them happy.
Do penguins honestly think 'package management' is simpler to comprehend than 'software installation'?

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